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Thermodynamics and living systems: problems and paradigms
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, LA 70148.
The Journal of Nutrition
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
The utility of thermodynamic laws in biological systems is reviewed. The joint historical development of thermodynamics and of respiratory physiology in the 19th century is surveyed. From first principles of thermodynamics, problems are noted in their application to physiological calorimetry.